Hot Tomali has received 2 national honours at the Advertising and Design Club of Canada’s 2011 Directions Awards. The event was held at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Koemer Hall in Toronto, Ontario on November 3. Canada’s longest running advertising awards show, ADCC’s awards began in 1949 and have been going strong ever since. The [...]
Category Archives: Broadcast
Lights, Camera, Freeze
How clever are we? Well we replaced the word action with the word freeze to get you to read this body copy in an effort to sell you on the benefits of our FREEZE THE MOMENT with Slurpee contest. So it’s safe to say that we’re super clever. But we don’t want all the spotlight. [...]
Superbowl Ad Meter Won by Spot with $2,000 Budget
228 people were polled in USA Today’s Ad Meter to find out which ad they thought was best in this year’s Superbowl, and the verdict was a kick in the crotch to the big name agencies headlining this year’s crop. The spot, “Free Doritos, which was created as part of the Doritos consumer generated ad [...]
Gravid Beardies!
Our bearded dragons, Cree & Bella have been acting strange for a few days, and now we know why. One of them has started laying eggs. Here’s the live feed of our beardie cam: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hot-tomali Share and Enjoy:
It's Official: Ad Writers Win Test The Nation!
How tough was is to keep that a secret for MONTHS!?! Anyway, in case you missed CBC’s Test The Nation on TV tonight the Ad Writers beat out all the other teams (including English Teachers, Word Gamers, Romance Novelists, Comedians, Students, etc.) in this national language test. Viewers at home could play along online (although [...]
Hot Tomali Wins at National TV Advertising Awards – The Bessies
We won best of category at Bessies for Pardons Direct’s 30-second TV spot “Job Interview!” This is a national show so hats off to everyone involved. Many of the spots that won at the Bessies this year went on to win Lions at Cannes (including 2 Grand Prix), so this is still a remarkable feat. [...]
Blast from the Past
It was the peak of the dot.com craze and while the rest of the world was watching “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and awaiting impending the doom of Y2K, Hot Tomali was producing their very first commercial! Share and Enjoy:
The $1.65 Billion dollar answer is: Googletube!
So, we get word from Debbie last night that our new blog is going live ASAP, and everybody better be ready to contribute. Imagine the pressure … I need to find something newsworthy and relevant to write in our company’s blog that I presume is intended to attract interest from others who are curious to [...]













